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Race Against Prime Time

David Shulman

1985, 60:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 308.00

Race Against Prime Time examines the impact of the media on current events. Using the 1980 racial riots in Liberty City, Florida as a case study, the tape focuses on the policies, practices, and pressures that shape television news coverage. Four years in the making, Race Against Prime Time takes a probing look at the network and afffiliate TV news coverage of the racial conflict which erupted in Miami in May 1980 following the acquittal of 4 Miami police officers of all charges related to the beating death of a black man - Arthur McDuffie - by a six man, all white jury.

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Critical Writing

Grierson '86
by Magnus Isacsson. Cinema Canada, Jan. 1987, no. 137.
How Television Covered The McDuffie Riot in May 1980
by Mohamed Hamaludin. The Miami Times, May 15, 1986, v. 63, no. 36.
Media exploitation
by Celia Brayfield. Sunday Times Review, Nov. 24, 1985.